A lot of new work to come.

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The new bolo. Turns out he's out of the size cord he needs for it, so it'll be a few days before it's complete. But it's amazing: two layers of all-freehand saw-work, scallop-work, scorework, stampwork, overlay, bezel-work . . . and incredible red-web Kingman turquoise. 

He's also got two pairs of earrings in the works that should be done tomorrow, incredible top cabs with long, dangling sterling silver pendants. The next thing in the works is a big cuff, but that's a few days off yet. But there'll be a lot of new work to come.

We went absolutely nowhere today, which was a relief. I'm so tired. I still have to get my scrips, which will probably be ready tomorrow afternoon, and see how this new medication works, because my pain levels are completely unmanageable now.

And none of that matters. All the work still has to get done: the housework, the paperwork [including some bureaucratic bullshit that we shouldn't be having to deal with, but the state is nothing if not venal], the sales work, everything. And the one thing that came out of the tax nonsense is that I was not losing my mind; last year, we made barely more than 50% of the previous year's sales, which tells you how bad Trump is for business [and for everything else except inflicting harm]. The problem is that everything still has to get paid, and we paid in cash, in full, and now we've got recover a lot of that if we're going to make it through the year. And we've got to maintain it, because we've also got big costs [the side exterior door, for one; the flue cleanings for another; and a set of tires for the truck for a third] immediately ahead. But I have got to get us caught up on this awful year in terms of sales. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of items off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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